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Baltimore riots: looting, fires and unrest as Freddie Gray police clashes unfurl – live. The conference is a quite detailed breakdown of the police operations that occurred throughout the evening.

We’ve started to transcribe the full conference, here is the first part that outlines the initial unrest that occurred at Mondawmin Mall: The officers got caught on an incline to which a number of my officers got injured. I had one officer knocked out, hit on the head, he was taken to the hospital. I just checked on him, he’s doing better.
NEB pipeline process a 'sham,' new Liberal plan not much better, Vancouver mayor says. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says the National Energy Board's Trans Mountain pipeline review process is a "sham," and its move to green-light the major infrastructure project threatens tens of thousands of jobs in his city.

The federal energy regulator recommended — after a three-year investigation — that the controversial Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project should be built, as long as 157 conditions are met, including 49 environmental requirements. "The NEB process was a sham, basically, it was advanced with gusto by the Harper government, who were obviously strong proponents of this pipeline process," Robertson said in an interview with Chris Hall on CBC Radio's The House. "We put up a solid fight against it, but many of the interveners, many voices were shut out of that process and First Nations weren't consulted appropriately," he said, noting the board did not review the project's downstream climate change impact.
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Mexico’s Crusade of the Deadly Knights Templar « Mystery of the Iniquity. At first, the amateur video shows a normal evening in the seething valley town of Apatzingán, in Mexico’s western Michoacán state. But as residents and stall owners mix jovially on the sidewalk, the calm is broken by the sinister appearance of masked men gripping machine guns mounted on more than 50 pickup trucks, Hummers and Jeeps.
Benedict Arnold: American history’s most heroic traitor. “Time Trial of Benedict Arnold,” the museum’s new theater program, opened on December 27 to rave reviews!

The program explores the complexities of history by examining the case of Benedict Arnold, America’s best-known traitor. But how does historical understanding develop over time? What happens between the facts of an historical event and the memories of history?
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Phenomenal Travel Videos. Read the full story here: Here is one of the most famous haunted locations in Florida, called the Devil’s Tree.

I am Praveen Mohan and this is located in Oak Hammock Park in Port St Lucie. This oak tree is said to be owned by Devil himself, and is impossible to cut it down. Unlike most urban legends, this tree has a very real story behind it.
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The Russian Revolution - Part 3. RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism. POLITICAL TERM OF THE DAY!- Dialectical materialism. 22 novembre 1906 - Réforme agraire de Stolypine. Irish Emigration History - University of Cork, Ireland. Commentators have variously referred to 1950s in Ireland as the decade of ‘doom and gloom’, the 'worst decade since the famine' and the ‘lost decade’. [1] Agriculture, the traditional mainstay of the Irish economy, continued to decline throughout the 1950s.

The state dedicated insufficient effort to developing new industries to fill the gap created by the demise of, in particular, of the small farm rural economy. As a consequence, little work was available for thousands of young people coming of age. Unemployment remained high throughout and it was estimated that from 1949 to 1956, real national income rose by only 8 per cent, at a time when the average increase in European equated to approximately 40 per cent.[2] Most young people knew that the only way to secure steady employment therefore was to cross the Irish Sea.[3] In the 1950s, approximately half a million left the Irish Republic. Why did so many people leave independent Ireland during the late 1940s and 1950s?
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Saudi Arabia, Exporter of Oil and Bigotry. Photo A college senior boarded a flight and excitedly called his family to recount a United Nations event he had attended, but, unfortunately, he was speaking Arabic.

Southwest Airlines kicked him off the plane, in the sixth case reported in the United States this year in which a Muslim was ejected from a flight. Such Islamophobia also finds expression in the political system, with Donald Trump calling for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country (“Welcome to the U.S.A.! Now, what’s your religion?”)
Germany: A False Model at Reports from the Economic Front.

As growing numbers of countries face renewed austerity pressures, there is a tendency to explain the trend by searching for specific policy failures in each country rather than considering broader structural dynamics. Key to the credibility of those who argue for a focus on national decisions is the existence of countries that people believe are performing well. Thus, the argument goes, if only policy makers followed best practices their people wouldn’t find themselves in such a bad place.

Recently, German has become one of these model countries.
Amnesty questions claim that Gaddafi ordered rape as weapon of war - Africa, World. Nato leaders, opposition groups and the media have produced a stream of stories since the start of the insurrection on 15 February, claiming the Gaddafi regime has ordered mass rapes, used foreign mercenaries and employed helicopters against civilian protesters.
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